The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right

The Terrorist Next Door The Militia Movement and the Radical Right September focused America s attention on the terrorist threat from abroad but as the World Trade Center towers collapsed domestic right wing hate groups were celebrating in the United Stat

Title: The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right

Author: Daniel Levitas

ISBN: 9780312320416

Page: 293

Format: Paperback

September 11, 2001, focused America s attention on the terrorist threat from abroad, but as the World Trade Center towers collapsed, domestic right wing hate groups were celebrating in the United States Hallelu Yahweh May the WAR be started DEATH to His enemies, may the World Trade Center BURN TO THE GROUND announced August Kreis of the paramilitary group, the PosseSeptember 11, 2001, focused America s attention on the terrorist threat from abroad, but as the World Trade Center towers collapsed, domestic right wing hate groups were celebrating in the United States Hallelu Yahweh May the WAR be started DEATH to His enemies, may the World Trade Center BURN TO THE GROUND announced August Kreis of the paramilitary group, the Posse Comitatus We can blame no others than ourselves for our problems due to the fact that we allow Satan s children, called jews sic today, to have dominion over our lives The Terrorist Next Door reveals the men behind far right groups like the Posse Comitatus Latin for power of the county and the ideas that inspired their attempts to bring about a racist revolution in the United States.Timothy McVeigh was executed for killing 168 people when he bombed the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in 1995, but The Terrorist Next Door goes well beyond the destruction in Oklahoma City and takes readers deeper and broadly inside the Posse and other groups that comprise the paramilitary right From the emergence of white supremacist groups following the Civil War, through the segregationist violence of the civil rights era, the right wing tax protest movement of the 1970s, the farm crisis of the 1980s and the militia movement of the 1990s, the book details the roots of the radical right It also tells the story of men like William Potter Gale, a retired Army officer and the founder of the Posse Comitatus whose hate filled sermons and calls to armed insurrection have fueled generations of tax protesters, militiamen and other anti government zealots since the 1960s.Written by Daniel Levitas, a national expert on the origins and activities of white supremacist and neo Nazi groups, The Terrorist Next Door is painstakingly researched and includes rich detail from official documents including the FBI , private archives and confidential sources never before disclosed In detailing these and other developments, The Terrorist Next Door will prove to be the most definitive history of the roots of the American militia movement and the rural radical right ever written.

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In light of America's continued gun violence and the gun nut lobby that defends it, this is a must readDaniel Levitas details the real terrorists nobody wants to talk about, even after Tim McVeigh, even after US mass gun caches being found, even after tea party assassination discussions, many of them racist in nature.As long as there is a highly armed radical right in America, with a core of anti-Semitism above all else, as long as conspiracy theorists can get the ear of Congress or even still o [...]

Well, this book has some major flaws in it. While some groups and individuals mentioned here are definitely dangerous, he keeps bringing Timothy McVeigh as a prime example, he spreads his net a bit wide. By the time he's through a simple tax protestor is equated with someone who sends death threats to the IRS.If you look at his time line (listed in the back of the book) of "events" supporting his premise you'll find some criminal items, but you'll also find things like "the U.S.Senate votes to r [...]

Would you agree that PETA, ALF, or Green Peace are terrorists? Well, it depends on the definition of terrorists, right? A perfect definition really isn't available. The DoD came close but there's always something left out. Essentially, terrorism is the use, threatened use, or attempted use of force or violence against a group of people or civilians of a sovereign government, for the purpose of creating fear to influence that government or group to change something or bend to the will of the aggr [...]

very detailed and carefully done history of the militia movement and Posse Comitatus extremist groups and Christian Identity and Neonazis from about the end of World War II to the time of writing just after 9/11. In-depth and compelling examination of hate groups in this period. Required reading for the understanding the progenitors of today's alt-right (nazis by another name).

A stunningly researched overview of the rise of the Posse Comitatus movement in the United States. How its principle adherents William Gale and Mike Beach spun their tax protesting, jew hating, gun loving, racist anti-federalism out of the Christian Identity congregations entangling the farm movement while spawning the modern militia movements.Each chapter details yet another of the petty power plays these white supremacist con men run in order to bolster their reputation and grow membership. Wh [...]

How does the grandson of Jewish immigrants become a leading voice in anti-Semitic movements? The Terrorist Next Door reviews domestic militancy in the United States, as viewed through the life of Bill Gale, founder of the Posse Comitatus. Taking its name from an act meant to prevent Federal troops from interfering in civil affairs, the group’s abiding faith was animosity towards a government viewed as corrupt at best, and taken over by alien forces at worst. (“Alien” in this case referring [...]

When I picked up the book, I thought it would be more of a history/treatise on American Right-Wing groups. Instead, it was something of a history lesson, complete with terrorist-tree of Bill Gale, a hypocritical man, born to a Jewish family who became a raging anti-semite, and whose actions spawned multiple branches of hate groups mostly in the Western half of the country.At least, I think that is what the book is about.The truth is, the book jumps around quite a bit. I learned a lot about the u [...]

Exhaustive work detailing the personalities and ideology of those who spawned the current militia/white power movements. A lot of biographical information on the leaders of the Posse Comitatus, etc. The author has a helpful timeline in the appendix, as well as tons of citations. The author doesn't shirk from letting the reader know what he thinks about certain matters, but that doesn't get in the way of the scholarship.

Too many people are introduced within each chapter, making it difficult to follow. Some scenes are a bit too graphic for my taste as well. Overall it is informative and I learned a lot about right wing terrorism, although it is a dry, dull read.

OK, so maybe I just used this for research and didn't read every word. But it's a very interesting history of the American extreme right since the early 1970s. William Potter Gale is the most important racist nutjob you've never heard of.

This book was written by a great person with whom I worked during the Farm Crisis in the 1980's. At that time, antisemitism was finding fertile ground in rural America as hard-working farmers searched for reasons why they were losing the homes and land that had been handed down through multiple generations. Dan came into Colorado a couple of times during that period and reached out to farmers to show them that blaming another culture for this tragedy was misdirected and would not save their farm [...]